[36141] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MBone access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Mar 27 21:49:49 2001
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:44:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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No amount of education can change the simple fact that the transport level
multicasting is a broken concept. I do not want to reiterate all the
years-old arguments, it suffices to say that since then no magic bullet
was found allowing multicating to be safe to the routing infrastructure,
or scalable enough for use by the mass of regular end-users.
Some bad ideas just won't die.
--vadim
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:40:06PM -0600, Tim Winders wrote:
> >
> > > I'm curious what barriers are keeping multicast from being
> > > deployed at the edges. Does your upstream not support
> > > multicast connectivity, or is it an education issue in getting
> > > connected?
> >
> > In my case... lack of understand/education.
